Greenland Ice Lost 18 Billion Tons Of Meltwater Last Weekend; Biggest Melt At North End Of Island
It's getting hotter in Greenland and last weekend temperatures rose enough to cause 18 billion tons of the country's ice sheet to melt over a three-day period.
Scientists have warned about the impending fate of Greenland's ice sheet and say what happened between July 15 and 17 is the latest massive melting event contributing to an increase in the global sea level.
The amount of water from the July 15-17 melt – about 6 billion tons per day, or 18 billion tons over the weekend – is enough to "cover West Virginia in a foot of water – four inches per day, roughly," Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado's Earth Science and Observation Center and National Snow and Ice Data Center, told USA TODAY.
Much of the melting came from northern Greenland because warm air drifted over from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Scambos said. There is also a high-pressure dome over Greenland. Together, they created an "unusually extensive melt event," he said.
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